• Oscar winner Ben Kingsley will provide the voice of panther Bagheera in Disney’s upcoming film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The movie, directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man), will be a combination of live-action and animation with a script by Justin Marks. Kingsley joins previously announced stars Idris Elba (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), Scarlett Johansson (Her), and Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave) as the voices of Shere Khan, Kaa, and Rakcha, respectively, for a scheduled Oct. 9, 2015, release. [THR]

• Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) will produce and star in A House in the Sky, based on the memoir by journalist Amanda Lindhout, which chronicled her 15 months in captivity after being abducted by a Somalian rebel terrorist group. [THR]

• Luke Evans (The Hobbit) and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) have signed on for High-Rise. Based on J.G. Ballard’s thriller about a luxury residential complex built on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s England, Ben Wheatley will direct the film from an adaptation by Amy Jump (A Field in England) with previously announced stars Tom Hiddleston (Thor), Sienna Miller (Foxcatcher), and Jeremy Irons (The Borgias). [Variety]

• Will Poulter (We’re the Millers) is in talks to join Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) in the revenge thriller The Revenant. The film, based on the Michael Punke novel, will be directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel). [Variety]

• Jack Reynor, who will be seen in this weekend’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, will play MLB player Josh Hamilton in Miracle Shot, the feature film about his life based on his book Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back. Oscar nominee Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) will write and make his directorial debut with the film, which will show how Hamilton went from a crack addiction to the top of the professional sporting world, currently playing for the Los Angeles Angels. [Deadline]